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The basics of the Higgs boson

In this animated lesson for TED-Ed, CERN physicists David Barney and Steven Goldfarb use the Socratic method to explain the Higgs boson

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Physics
16 May, 2013
Physics
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16 May, 2013

Orbital welding on the Large Hadron Collider

Watch Said Atieh of Engineering department explain some of the unique challenges of welding on the LHC

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Engineering
15 May, 2013

A fundamental property of the rarest element on Earth

An international team of physicists at ISOLDE have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine

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Experiments
14 May, 2013

First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei

An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes

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Experiments
08 May, 2013

CERN and OpenAIREplus launch European research repository

Zenodo, hosted at CERN, will researchers to share publications and supporting data more easily

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Computing
08 May, 2013

Lab-made liquid may cause strange particle behaviour

A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"

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Accelerators
08 May, 2013

Webcast: Ig Nobel show

Marc Abrahams, editor of the <em>Annals of Improbable Research</em> will be presenting the Ig Nobel show at the University of Geneva today

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At CERN
07 May, 2013
At CERN
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07 May, 2013

The birth of a Higgs boson

Physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations explain how they came to identify the new particle of 2012 as "a Higgs boson"

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Physics
07 May, 2013
Physics
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07 May, 2013

First TEDxCERN event kicks off at CERN

The inaugural TEDxCERN event at CERN today will see a plethora of talks on topics from seafloor earthquakes to the Higgs boson

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At CERN
03 May, 2013